Rose Anne Miguel
Appears in 115 Episodes
Creating grassroots movements to support kids in your community (with Merlin Anderson)
There’s a lot of talk within the therapy world about effective therapy strategies; but there’s NOT a lot of talk about how to get funding so programs can actually deli...
What district wide activities are relevant to school therapists?
If you’re a school therapist, you’ve likely been asked to do a lot of things within the school system that don’t seem totally relevant to your role as a clinician. Ye...
De Facto Leaders: A New Show Title and Direction
In this episode, I’m excited to officially announce the new direction for the podcast! The show is now called “De Facto Leaders” (it was formerly “Are they 18 yet?®”)...
What to do when the IEP team doesn't agree
Part of a school therapist’s job is getting buy-in from the entire IEP team, but that can be difficult to do when team members don’t agree on what’s best for a student...
Navigating workplace conflict and getting team buy-in
One of the most powerful ways to provide comprehensive services for K-12 kids is by collaborating with other therapists and teachers… Which is why it’s frustrating wh...
Effective clinical supervision and creating leadership opportunities
If you’re a pediatric therapist or service provider, chances are you do some form of “supervising”, whether it’s in your job title or not. Part of being an effective...
Why you should plan for service delivery instead of planning for therapy
One of the biggest challenges for pediatric therapists is making sure their caseload has support across the day and across settings. This becomes incredibly difficult...
How to provide high-quality support for your caseload with the "asset stack" method
A lot of your clinical training taught you how to be a good clinician. But often it doesn’t teach you how to "work the system" and get your kids what they need. The t...
The Danger of the Comfort Zone
In episode 82, I sit down with my friend and mentor Stephanie Hayes and talk about comfort zones. I share my experiences within the context of my personal business, b...
Whose job is it to work on executive functioning?
In the School of Clinical Leadership, I’ve devoted an entire suite of programs to educating professionals on executive functioning. Even though the focus of the prog...
Career “test-runs” and calming your inner critic (with Stephanie Hayes)
In this episode, I’m sharing a special conversation with my mentor, friend, and business consultant, Stephanie Hayes. Stephanie specializes in building businesses fro...
The low-risk way to explore career pivots (for therapists)
There’s often a typical expected career path for pediatric clinicians, regardless of the discipline. It can often feel a bit constraining, especially if it doesn’t ful...
The Levels of Clinical Leadership
A lot of the clinicians I work with feel very “boxed in” when it comes to the typical career path for therapists. They’re boxed in by the way they have to provide ser...
Don’t avoid problems. Plan for them.
There are a lot of challenges that we face as therapists; but not all of them need to prevent us from delivering quality services. By facing our problems head on, oft...
Creating assets and leverage to amplify the impact of your services
When people talk about assets, they’re often thinking about personal finance. They’re talking about things like real estate, index funds, crypto and other things aimed...
Therapists are leaders in disguise
One of the most common questions I get is “What am I supposed to do in therapy with students/clients?” Many of my readers want to know what strategies and techniques t...
Why "work-life balance" is unattainable (and what to do instead)
Therapists and teachers (and anyone else in a “helping people” profession) always have to take care of OTHER people…which is hard to do if you’re burnt out all the tim...
DLD, CAPD, dyslexia, hyperlexia and supporting literacy
Therapists and educators supporting K-12 literacy have a lot of diagnoses and labels to navigate, and some of them are controversial. In some debates, the diagnosis i...
How to make syntax instruction useful for the real world
Schools often get criticized for not teaching enough “real world” skills to kids, and there’s a lot of truth to that statement. Most of the therapists I work with are...
What’s really causing “topic maintenance” issues?
Topic maintenance is a skill I’ve seen on many language therapy IEPs in the category of “pragmatic language”, but often it’s a surface-level symptom of something else....
Why I don't use language therapy goal banks
I get a lot of questions about how to write language therapy goals… I ALSO get a lot of questions about whether I offer goal banks in any of my courses. I do offer a...
Defining Vocabulary: It's more complicated than you think
When people ask me where they should start in language therapy, I usually say they should start by building vocabulary. That usually results in a couple raised eyebro...
Language therapy: Managing info overload and misinformation
Back when I first started practicing, I found language therapy to be super overwhelming. There were so many peer-reviewed articles, books, and seminars, and it was ha...
Rerelease: Burnout, boundaries, and systems
In episode 65, I take a break from the regular content to talk about burnout and boundaries; and specifically how I use systems to help me set healthy boundaries and r...
Are kids ready to work on complex sentences in early elementary school?
In episode 64, I share a Q & A from the Language Therapy Advance Foundations members’ group about working on complex sentences with students in early elementary school...
Navigating dyslexia and working memory goals
In episode 63, I share a Q & A from the Language Therapy Advance Foundations members’ group about dyslexia diagnosis and treatment, as well as working memory goals. I...
Childhood anxiety and mental health (with Dr. Ambroes Pass-Turner)
There’s been an increase in depression and anxiety in kids in recent years, which is why I wanted to have an expert on the show who’s had years of experience working w...
Building word-retrieval and independent word learning in K-12 kids
I get a ton of questions about how to support kids who have weak word-retrieval, so I wanted to share a powerful technique you can use to address this. When kids have...
Traveling with autistic kids (with Dawn Barclay)
When it comes to supporting autistic kids, I’ve come across a lot of resources that help with the home and school environments. But many families aren’t sure how to n...
ADHD coaching for young adults (with Lori Melnitsky)
When it comes to working on executive functioning and “social skills”, one of the biggest complaints I hear from therapists is that their clients don’t generalize. T...
